"Today the Administration [has announced] a proposed rule change that will save countless American families from the trauma of separation and, at the same time, make America safer. ... Under the twisted immigration law the husband or wife of a US citizen...
Alicia A. Caldwell, AP, Jan. 6, 2012 : "The Obama administration plans a rule change to help reduce the time [unauthorized] immigrant spouses and children are separated from citizen relatives while they try to win legal status in the United States, a senior...
"On July 5, a newly minted U.S. citizen, Oscar Vazquez, found himself in a plane over North Carolina preparing for his first jump as a member of the Army's Airborne unit. Being in that plane with his Airborne brothers fulfilled a dream Vazquez, 25, had...
"Environmental groups are fighting a proposal that would grant U.S. Customs and Border Protection greater authority to operate in public parks and on environmentally protected land, saying it would circumvent regulations designed to protect natural...
Angelo has a work-around for the 3/10 year bar problem: "[S]eemingly mandatory legislative procedures that lead to immigration deaths only appear necessary if the Administration is unwilling to look under the hood of the immigration laws to find more compassionate...
Matter of Bador, 28 I&N Dec. 638 (BIA 2022) (1) A fraud waiver under section 237(a)(1)(H) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (“INA”), 8 U.S.C. § 1227(a)(1)(H) (2018), does not waive a respondent’s removability under section 237(a)(1)(D)(i) of the INA...
USCIS, Apr. 7, 2022 - Interview Waiver Criteria for Family-Based Conditional Permanent Residents "Policy Highlights • Updates interview waiver criteria by providing that USCIS officers may consider waiving an interview if, generally, the applicant meets...
Jimenez-Rodriguez v. Garland "Reading the broad language of §§ 1003.10(b) and 1240.1(a)(1)(iv), we conclude that these regulations give the IJ the Attorney General’s discretionary authority to grant a § 1182(d)(3)(A)(ii) waiver. ... [W]e grant the petition...
Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 1 / Monday, January 4, 2021 "The Acting Secretary of Homeland Security has determined, pursuant to law, that it is necessary to waive certain laws, regulations, and other legal requirements in order to ensure the expeditious...
State Department, Dec. 29, 2020 - Expansion of Interview Waiver Eligibility "Secretary Pompeo, in consultation with the Department of Homeland Security, has temporarily expanded the ability of consular officers to waive the in-person interview requirement...
This document is scheduled to be published in the Federal Register on 05/15/2020 "The Acting Secretary of Homeland Security has determined, pursuant to law, that it is necessary to waive certain laws, regulations, and other legal requirements in order to...
This document is scheduled to be published in the Federal Register on 04/15/2020 "The Acting Secretary of Homeland Security has determined, pursuant to law, that it is necessary to waive certain laws, regulations, and other legal requirements in order to...
On Monday, Mar. 16, 2020 DHS will publish six border law waiver determinations in the Federal Register "in order to ensure the expeditious construction of barriers and roads in the vicinity of the international land border in..." Val Verde County...
Federal Register / Vol. 85, No. 34 / Thursday, February 20, 2020 "The Acting Secretary of Homeland Security has determined, pursuant to law, that it is necessary to waive certain laws, regulations, and other legal requirements in order to ensure the expeditious...
Elliot Spagat, Associated Press, Feb. 18, 2020 "The Trump administration said Tuesday that it will waive federal contracting laws to speed construction of a wall at the U.S.-Mexico border. The Department of Homeland Security said waiving procurement regulations...